I've had a pretty felicitous day insofar as acquisitions go.
Some thiourea. Funny thing to find I know, but stranger things have happened.
I wasn't sure it was indeed what was claimed on the container label, but a quick test with an alkyl halide and then addition of NaOH to hydrolyze the isothiouronium salt quickly confirmed the ID as correct, courtesy of the resultant unbearable stench of the alkyl mercaptan/thiol. Wasn't sure if it had succeeded at first, or if the faint whiff of gas (I mean, house gas as used for cooking and heating. The smell is the result of added mercaptans in trace quantities) was coming from the blowtorch. But after the reaction began to kick off properly, it got more concentrated, and (outside away from open windows and ventilation) lets just say...rather pungent
Money-some loose change whilst out in the city center, 40 pounds 50 pence, a partially full metal can of cellulose thinners. Not sure if its xylenes or something like those glycol ether 'cellosolve' type buggers yet or something else entirely, haven't looked at it in detail yet, read label, take specific gravity, boiling point etc. It will be useful at any rate, I'm hoping one of the ether types however, for potential use as a solvent for hydride reducing agents (E.g LiAlH4, RED-AL, borohydrides, cyanoborohydrides etc. etc. and of course simple alkali metal hydrides themselves.)
Got home, thinking I'd be feeling rough after I stopped walking all over the city, as I was very, very low on my pain meds (fucking doc forgot to put the newly added breakthrough pain relief med on my repeats, so I have had none of it this week at all, only my usual daily morphine pills)
As such, I've been rationing them out with a fist possibly tighter than some doctors I know (bastarding well saying something that is too
) until I get my refill on tuesday.
Only, I go to pick up some newspapers and books off my bedroom floor, and find at least 3 of the lil fuckers loose on the floor, plus 7-8 in a blister pack I must have dropped at some time, and a badly squished and broken one hanging around behind my computer keyboard. Time release won't work if they are crushed, but I can't remember if I have ever taken one of the things by mouth anyway
Just what my aching back needed, not to mention my hip. The latter started going on me pretty badly right as I got off my home tram stop, fucking just as well I got a lift back home, I don't think I could have walked it, until finding those pills at home, all I had today was a bottle of some fairly weak (not to mention unspeakably foul tasting/smelling) codeine cough mixture. 150mg of morphine sulfate in the arm was just what I needed then.
Searched around my room a bit more, and found quite a few useful odds and ends, inc. a decent sized pack of tizanidine (a really powerful muscle relaxant), some cyclizine (strongly sedating antihistamine, makes a pretty good potentiator for opioids), half a crate of Foster's, a newish variety they have on the shelves now, 'radler' which is fosters lager mixed with lime and ginger, only tried it the once before tonight, and its pretty good.
Just when I was really thirsty, theres nothing to drink but milk or acidified, sweetened water in the house and I haven't the money to get anything from the really pricy all-night gas station, nowhere else open at 4:45am.
A bit warm, but the ones not open now are going in the freezer for a few to really cool the fuckers down. Cold beer would be perfect right now.
And just found three of my flash drives I have been searching all over for, as well as 60-something 300mg gabapentin caps (mildly sedating, generally muscle relaxant, but best at treating neuropathic pain, which isn't a kind of pain that responds well to opiates usually) and at a guess, without weighing, a bit over 0.5g of some sort of stimulant, either the ethyl ester version of ritalin, ethylphenidate, or...something a little sinful, so to speak.
A small sapphire, and some high purity silver bullion. Not a great weight, but I've been searching for them for ages. Just need to find the larger sapphire (7.5 ct iirc) and buy a suitable small crucible with a lid then I'm ready to make the jewelery piece I have in mind as a surprise gift for my stalker.
Now if only I could find some chloroform, or at least sufficient dry acetone to run a haloform reaction and make some chloroform from scratch (or rather, from acetone and bleach) I'd be all set to run a couple of tests on some unknown chemical samples that the filth seized and analyzed to try and find an excuse to bust me a few years ago, found the returned items, now unlabelled, and unknown. So I need to work out what the fuck they both are, seeing as how they were returned outside of their original containers, with no label on them.
